Aim: To practise and improve basic fine motor skills (hand-eye co-ordination)
Learning intentions: To enable the children to practise and improve the skills of throwing and aiming
Practice: Once the children have mastered the rules of the game, leave the equipment freely available so they can set the game up without adult support.
Resources: Collect as many boxes as possible: Large (computer), medium (photocopying paper), small-medium (shoe) and small boxes (present). Have more large boxes than small ones, particularly for the younger children. Balls and bean bags in various sizes. A container(s) for the balls. A selection of bags that can hold several balls, so fairly large, but not so big a small child cannot carry it. If you want, get the children to decorate the boxes before playing the game. They can use thick felt pens or thick pencils or paints.
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